Archive for March, 2006

Shufrych, Vitrenko, many others – I wish they had some faraway country of their own to run.
All this noise about the recount, it’s disgusting. Maybe some of those who are demanding it are right, I don’t know, but the bazaar they’re making out of it is terrible. Where were they in 2004?
And I hate to [...]

Shufrych, Vitrenko, many others – I wish they had some faraway country of their own to run.
All this noise about the recount, it’s disgusting. Maybe some of those who are demanding it are right, I don’t know, but the bazaar they’re making out of it is terrible. Where were they in 2004?
And I hate to [...]

I’m watching Savik Shuster’s Svoboda Slova show: Karmazin, who for some reason ran on his own and, naturally, failed to get in, is having a serious fight with Davydovych, current head of the Central Election Commission. All politicians gathered in the studio today are not satisfied with the results of the count (most of them, [...]

I’m watching Savik Shuster’s Svoboda Slova show: Karmazin, who for some reason ran on his own and, naturally, failed to get in, is having a serious fight with Davydovych, current head of the Central Election Commission. All politicians gathered in the studio today are not satisfied with the results of the count (most of them, [...]

I found the remains of this sticker on a park bench today:

The face is Serhiy Kivalov’s – aka Kidalov, pidrahui! – and the text says he has to be in jail. Signed by Pora (not sure which one, the party or the movement.)
He’s in parliament now, however, or will soon be there, as he is [...]

I found the remains of this sticker on a park bench today:

The face is Serhiy Kivalov’s – aka Kidalov, pidrahui! – and the text says he has to be in jail. Signed by Pora (not sure which one, the party or the movement.)
He’s in parliament now, however, or will soon be there, as he is [...]

For those who read Ukrainian, here’s a hilarious explanation of the voters’ choices.
It’s not really Ukrainian all the time, actually: the guy often switches into a kind of phonetical spelling that imitates both bad Ukrainian and bad Russian, and sometimes he’s writing in that special lingo in which such words as roblyat’ and lyublyat’ [...]

For those who read Ukrainian, here’s a hilarious explanation of the voters’ choices.
It’s not really Ukrainian all the time, actually: the guy often switches into a kind of phonetical spelling that imitates both bad Ukrainian and bad Russian, and sometimes he’s writing in that special lingo in which such words as roblyat’ and lyublyat’ [...]

Photos from Ivanovo Orphanage here and here.
A group of wonderful Muscovites visited this orphanage on March 19 (not for the first time) and delivered toys, clothes, medicines, juices, etc.
Lots of info (in Russian) on how to help Russian orphanages is here, at the site called Dobrodel.ru.
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An excerpt from the Q & A section of [...]

Photos from Ivanovo Orphanage here and here.
A group of wonderful Muscovites visited this orphanage on March 19 (not for the first time) and delivered toys, clothes, medicines, juices, etc.
Lots of info (in Russian) on how to help Russian orphanages is here, at the site called Dobrodel.ru.
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An excerpt from the Q & A section of [...]




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    • <-- ...a little bit damaging to your reputation. But if you go to Peru and you run a presidential race and you lose, no one knows or cares." 18 hours ago
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